by Danielle Olivier | Aug 3, 2020 | Zeitz MOCAA Announcements
Dear friends of Zeitz MOCAA It is my pleasure to update you on our plans for reopening Zeitz MOCAA. For now, the museum remains temporarily closed due to the pandemic. Your health and safety are our priority. We are busy putting in place all the necessary measures to...
by Danielle Olivier | Jul 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
The diptych Fantôme Créole Series (Papillon, No 2) is taken from Isaac Julien’s film Fantôme Afrique (2005), a film the artist made in conversation with his earlier work True North (2004). Fantôme Afrique is set in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, a...
by Danielle Olivier | Jul 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Tammy Langtry, and I am a Curatorial Assistant at Zeitz MOCAA. Currently, we are all wondering how we can make sense of this world with its constantly shifting plates...
by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices, Uncategorised
Hello everyone, I’m Storm Janse Van Rensburg, Senior Curator at Zeitz MOCAA As I am writing this, South Africa has been 94 days in lockdown. I cannot recall when last I have been in one place for more than three months in a row. Time has gone by incredibly fast and...
by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices
#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...